Early yesterday afternoon, I had four obvious scars. Five, if you counted the one on where a nose piercing fell out in the middle of the night. Two scars are VERY old and barely visible. Another I got earlier in the year (on the way to a gallery opening, of all things) and the final is a large, long one, from an operation a few years ago ( Read more... )

(Noisily ill and wishing to be comatose ( Read more... )

... suspender-belt test drive, Top Gear style.
"The PVC number is a little too middle-aged key-party for most of us, but the classic black satin is THE way to go for style and practicality ( Read more... )

An exercise in two parts, seeing if I could recount events occurring over a number of days.

Thurday 27th July 06
Begging silently for mercy. Pleading to gods and deities - I will be a good girl from now on, just let me get through today.
Go home. Sleep. Miss yoga.

Friday 28th July 06Stuff. Things. Ummm ( Read more... )

An exercise in two parts, seeing if I could recount events occurring over a number of days.

Wednesday 19th July 06
Choir
Pick up Nettie after work. Confusion about meeting in car park. Head to Carlton for MUCS choir practice. Start with voice warm ups, singing the words 'bumblebee', 'cappuccino', 'cup-of-tea' low to high and back again. ( Read more... )

Arse-shit-FARK-fuckity-shitfuck-bum-FUCK ( Read more... )

Once in a while, you get an intense moment of stupifying clarity, like a reindeer just nunchucked you in the arse.

A scary majority of my male friends are Moody Loner Bastards. Some were and have outgrown it, some are and will always be, some you just step away from muttering "...issues, whoa..." to yourself ( Read more... )

Tried giving caehl a call at work to say:

"Yeaaarrgghhhh-wanna-go-shopping-buy-lingerie-hot-chocolate@KokoBlack-WTF-is-up-with-VICEmag-do-I-have-to-be-slutty-to'find myself'(erk!)-how-did-I-get-this-cut-on-my-finger"?!?!?!!

So instead, I'll say-
Hey street boy ( Read more... )

A few people, including myself, have been feeling a fat chunk less shiny of late. Antisocial, menstrual, fatigued, pre-menstrual, depressed, broke, lost, confused, afflicted with winter’s blue smack, punched in the nose of one’s self-worth, problems with girls, problems with boys, imbued with late twenty-something ennui, mid-life critical, etc ( Read more... )

Leaving Work

Vroom-vrooming off into the sunset, towards the West Gate Bridge. A sky streaked with crimson, pink and edged with gold. Deep blue cloud patterns streaking through.

Happy! Happy! It's totally Vulvaburst!

A name for lurid colour pencils AND a vivid mental image, invented in one drive home.